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Max Planck Institute for Human Development @mpib-berlin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The problem may not be getting women into academia, but keeping them there. A global study by @arc-mpib.bsky.social shows that women in psychology leave research at higher rates than men, particularly early in their careers. Read more: www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/press-releas... #WomenInScience

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Anna Thoma @annaithoma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚻 Even though women make up the majority of psychology students, they still leave research at a higher rate than men. 📄 In our new paper, led by Xinyi Zhao, we take a closer look at the gender attrition gap in academic psychology. 👉 Get a quick overview in this press release: mpib.berlin/EBDvH

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Women leave psychological research more often than men

The bigger hurdle appears not to be entering academia but staying in it: An international study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development shows that, despite high entry rates, w...

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Julian Berger @officialberger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New paper out in @pnas.org 🚨 Human learning is an understudied but promising lever for boosting human–AI synergy @jasonburton.bsky.social @ralfkurvers.bsky.social @stefanherzog.bsky.social @dirkwulff.bsky.social

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Dominik Deffner @dominikdeffner.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Come work with us! And get in touch with any questions you might have about the position, our labs or living/working in Germany #PostdocWanted

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Tom Wallis @tsawallis.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

**Postdoc position in human category learning** @thecharleywu.bsky.social, Frank Jäkel and I are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to lead a joint project on human category learning at the Centre for Cognitive Science @tuda.bsky.social. www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt...

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Alexander Schakowski @alexschakowski.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Very happy to see our ice-fishing paper on the cover of @science.org this week! 🎣🎉 We tracked large groups of Finnish competitive ice-fishers to study how social foragers use social information when searching for resources. 🐟 Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (contact me for open access)

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Anna Thoma @annaithoma.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

📣 New preprint and database synthesizing 3.8 million decisions from experience 📣 The project offers researchers a unique opportunity to explore how design features shape human learning and decision making. Check out the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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DfE–DB: A systematic database of 3.8 million human decisions across multiple experience-based tasks

Learning from experience is central to human decision making, yet research on experience-based choice remains fragmented across paradigms and disciplines. We present the Decision-from-Experience Datab...

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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

We have a new preprint: osf.io/preprints/so... What have we learned about social media - the constantly moving target of empirical research - over the past decade?

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Laurel Raffington @laraffington.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

We have an open postdoc position in Social Science Genomics in Berlin! Includes gene-environment interplay within German population cohorts & experimental online survey studies to probe public perceptions of potential DNA biomarker applications 🔗 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2196134/2025...

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Postdoctoral Position in Social Science Genomics | Max Planck Research Group Biosocial

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Dirk Wulff @dirkwulff.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

🚨 New publication: How to improve conceptual clarity in psychological science? Thrilled to see this article with @ruimata.bsky.social out. We discuss how LLMs can be leveraged to map, clarify, and generate psychological measures and constructs. Open access article: doi.org/10.1177/0963...

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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Fully-funded 4-year #PhD in Cultural Evolution! Join my @erc.europa.eu project exploring how compression & compositionality drive cultural innovation: hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... Apply by Nov 12! Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏

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ERC funded PhD position on Cultural Evolution

ERC funded PhD position on Cultural Evolution posted on October 16, 2025 We are currently seeking a highly motivated individual for a ful...

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Anna Thoma @annaithoma.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

🚨 New preprint: What does the research landscape of behavioral reinforcement learning look like 🌍? We developed an LLM-powered bibliometric analysis to characterize article clusters, investigate their connections, and examine the distribution of topics across the landscape. osf.io/6c2va_v1

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Dirk Wulff @dirkwulff.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Analyzing the academic trajectories of 78,216 psychology researchers, we demonstrate a persistent gender attrition gap, with women psychologists dropping out of academia at consistently higher rates than men psychologists. Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.13273

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Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Postdoc position open in Zurich -- Prof. Martin Tomasik and I have a joint SNF project on interpretable neural network approaches for large scale, complex item / temporal structure, online learning / cognitive development data. Please retweet. tinyurl.com/PostdocGNNSNF

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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

🚀Join our team @tuda.bsky.social ! 🚀 I'm looking for 3 PhDs & 1 Postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu project “C4: Compositional Compression in Cognition and Culture” to study learning across individuals, teams, and cultural timescales 👉 PhD: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html 👉 Postdoc: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc....

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Ana Sofia Morais @anasofiamorais.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Nudging has shaped behavioral policy for years—but what are its downsides? In our latest episode, 𝐑𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐡 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐰𝐢𝐠 makes the case for shifting from nudging to 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠—an alternative behavioral science approach that fosters people’s agency, self-control, and decision-making skills. tinyurl.com/3yvfwxc8

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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

🙌 Hot off the presses @natcomms.nature.com! We created a custom #Minecraft environment to study a long-standing puzzle in cognitive science: How do humans flexibly adapt their individual and social learning strategies in dynamic, realistic situations? Check it out 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

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Anna Thoma @annaithoma.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

1/n 🆕📄: How do children learn to adapt to different environments when making repeated choices? And what do cognitive immaturity and probability matching have to do with it? Our new article explores how kids & adults differ in probability learning across statistical task structures: mpib.berlin/R3RFy

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Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

🚀COSMOS is BACK!!!💫 The Computational School on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS) will take place in RIKEN, Tokyo, between 29 Sept - 3 Oct, organised by me and fantastic @thecharleywu.bsky.social ! Application deadline: 25th April. For more details see 👉️ cosmossummerschool.github.io

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The Computational Summer school on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS)

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Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) @arc-mpib.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨 Applications for the 22nd Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality are now open! 🌐 Join us in Berlin @mpib-berlin.bsky.social from June 17–25, 2025 to explore "Decision Making in a Digital World". ✏️ Application deadline is March 9 - more info at 👇!! www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/res...

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Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) @arc-mpib.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

🎙️ New Episode! ARC's Shahar Hechtlinger talks about transformative life decisions—becoming a parent, changing careers, or moving abroad. This episode gives you simple strategies and real-life examples to navigate the decisions. #Podcast #UnravBehavior www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKEK...

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Shahar Hechtlinger: The Psychology of Life's Most Important Decisions

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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 10/12/2024

Job announcement: Junior Professorship in Computational Social Science at the University of Konstanz. Join us at the Center for Data and Methods! Feel free to reach out if you have questions. stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...

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Junior Professorship (W1, non tenured) in Computational Social Science

Deadline: 7th of January 2025

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Anna Thoma @annaithoma.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

🥁 Exciting news: Our new article on repeated risky choices is out now! How do children and adults make repeated choices when they learn about probabilities from description (i.e., graphical representation)? Not as expected! 👀 Full text: mpib.berlin/PUMtN 1/n

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Do children match described probabilities? The sampling hypothesis applied to repeated risky choice

One way in which children can learn about probabilities of different outcomes before making a decision is from description, for instance, by observing…

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Dominik Deffner @dominikdeffner.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

How to link theory and data in cultural evolution (and beyond)? We propose a computational workflow that starts from generative models of empirical phenomena and logically connects statistical estimates to both theory and real-world explanatory goals. Out now in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Bridging theory and data: A computational workflow for cultural evolution | PNAS

Cultural evolution applies evolutionary concepts and tools to explain the change of culture over time. Despite advances in both theoretical and emp...

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Mubashir Sultan @msultan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Very happy to share that our work is now published in PNAS! 🎉 It's a systematic look into how demographic and psychological factors are associated with misinformation susceptibility. @arc-mpib.bsky.social Thread below and can be read in full here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Screenshot of the study page on the PNAS website.

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